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Meanwhile moderate Premier George Papandreou, who had arrived with the British troops, reorganized his Cabinet. He refused to grant EAM more than five of the 28 Cabinet portfolios. Reportedly, he won EAM's agreement to a gradual disarming of its military branch, the ELAS. Said Greek leftists sourly: such concessions had "lost the revolution...
Most significant Papandreou gain: he gave a member of his own Democratic Party. Philip Manulidis, the key Interior Ministry which controls the police. As Minister of the Interior, Manulidis would supervise the plebiscite to determine whether or not King George II shall return to Greece...
Said one well-informed Greek: Premier Papandreou "won't last six weeks once the Government gets to Athens, and if he does, woe betide poor Greece. She will be bathed in blood." He added: "Watch young Venizelos (liberal Vice Premier, who recently left the Papandreou Government in a huff), and keep a weather eye on the shadowy figure called Rendis, who until recently was minister without portfolio in the Papandreou Cabinet...
...been irritated because Premier George Papandreou had slipped off to Rome to talk with Winston Churchill without informing his cabinet. Young Venizelos was afraid that the supple premier was playing too close to Britain and the cause of Greek monarchy. He was also afraid that the Leftist EAM (Greek Committee of Liberation) representatives who had finally agreed to come to Cairo would balk at entering a pronouncedly royalist cabinet. So Sophocles resigned, figuring that from six to nine of his disgruntled fellow ministers would follow his lead and that Papandreou would...
Only two followed suit. The five newly-arrived delegates from EAM's mountain headquarters sized the situation up, marched straight to Papandreou to receive their portfolios. For the first time since the Nazis came to Greece, Greeks had a united government. Sophocles moved from his three-room suite at Shepheard's Hotel to an austere single room...